Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder 1883
Other Names: Bean's Sawtoothed Eel, Stout Sawpalate
Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii. Source: St. Lawrence Global Observatory-SLGO, http://slgo.ca, (2015); © CNozeres (MPODFO Canada). License: CC By Attribution
Summary:
A very slender brown to blackish eel with an iridescent silvery sheen, a beak-like snout, and the dorsal fin originating behind the anus.
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Bray, D.J. 2022, Serrivomer beanii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1429
Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder 1883
More Info
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Distribution |
Southern Australia, from off Sydney to about off Perth, Western Australia. Elsewhere the species is widespread in all major oceans. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 142-173; Anal fin 122-136; Caudal fin 5-6. Dorsal fin origin behind anus; vomerine teeth enlarged, about 3-4 times as long as wide, forming a saw-toothed row; anterior tips of the first 4-5 branchiostegal rays extending beyond the articulation with the hyoid arch. |
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Feeding |
Undertakes nightly vertical migrations to feed on shrimps, other crustaceans and small fishes. |
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Etymology |
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Species Citation |
Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder 1883, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6: 261. Type locality: Off northeastern U.S.A., 41°40'30"N, 66°35'00"W, Albatross station 2075, depth 0-855 fathoms. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2022 |
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Resources |
Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder 1883
References
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Gill, T.N. & Ryder, J.A. 1883. Diagnosis of new genera of nemichthyoid eels. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6: 260-262
Karmovskaya, E.S. 1978. Preliminary list of eels (Anguilliformes, Osteichthys) of the Australian-New Zealand region (on materials collected during the 16th cruise of the R/V Dimitry Mendeleev). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 112: 147-151 [in Russian]
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Springer, V.G. & Johnson, D.G. 2015. The gill-arch musculature of Protanguilla, the morphologically most primitive eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes), compared with that of other putatively primitive extant eels and other Elopomorphs. Copeia 103(3): 595-620.
Sutton, T.T., Hulley, P.A., Wienerroither, R., Zaera-Perez, D. & Paxton, R. 2020. Identification guide to the mesopelagic fishes of the Central and South East Atlantic Ocean. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome: i-xvi + 1-327.
Tighe, K. 2015. Serrivomer beanii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T190315A1947540. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190315A1947540.en. Accessed on 27 October 2022.
